Monday – December 10th, Day 80 Calendar Talk Ludus/Discussion - Saturnalia vs. Christmas NB: My teaching context is a private, Christian school, so this is the dominate holiday. It would probably be a more interesting discussion to include students who celebrate other December/Winter holidays. I created this survey to help facilitate the conversation. Listen and Draw …
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A Year in F7 – Week 17
The Winter break can't come too soon at this point. Centering a classroom around communication can be exhausting. What keeps me going however is beginning to see the fruits of acquisition-centered interaction in the classroom. Trickles of output are beginning to appear, and even the most disengaged (on the surface) students are showing evidence for …
Hacking Quizlet Live and Kahoot for Acquisition
Quizlet and Kahoot are mainstays of my classroom. Generally, I use one or both programs three or four times a month. For a while I have favored Quizlet due to the “group work/collaborative” aspect (which ticks some educational/pedagogical boxes), and the fact that the “diagram” functionality on the paid version of Quizlet. I turn my …
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A Year in F7 – Week 16
Monday, November 26th – Day 70 Warm up: Christmas/Holiday Songs Card Talk – what did you do for Thanksgiving? Prep Time: 0 minutes I had students draw two pictures—one was about something that did over the break, and the second was something that they didn’t do, but seemed like something that they would. After collecting …
A Year in F7 – Week 15
MONDAY – November 12th – Day 65 Card Talk: quid actum est hoc biduo? (What happened this weekend?) I provided the following support for the students to write information about their weekend: versata/versatus sum: I hung out ivi ad: I went to studivi: I studied lusi: I played legi: I read dormivi: I slept visitavi: …
A Year in F7 – Week 14
Monday – November 5th – Day 60 Calendar/Quid novi est? Quintus et Nox Horrifica – Sound Effects Theater A simple twist on reader’s theater. Since the novella deals a lot with the main character hearing a noise and investigating the sound in various rooms of his house, it lent itself to audience involvement in …
A Year in F7 – Week 13
Monday, Oct. 29th – Day 55 Calendar Talk/Quid Novi? One Word Image – “phantasma” Each class creates it’s own unique ghost. Prep Time: 0 minutes Write and Discuss – description of the OWI character, developing any details that may be pertinent to tomorrow’s “Ask a Story/Storytelling” activity Prep time: 0 minutes Tuesday, Oct. 30th …
A Year in F7 – Week 12
Monday, October 22nd, Day 50 Calendar Talk/Quid Novi Prep Time: 0 minutes Read and Discuss/Instant Replay/Read and Draw: Monstrum in Armario – Alternate Endings Prep Time: 0 minutes Read and Discuss: “Quintus et Nox Horrifica” Prep Time: 0 minutes Quick Quiz – Verum an Falsum? (based on “Quintus et Nox Horrifica”) Prep Time: 0 minutes …
Good Things Coming Soon . . .
As some may have noticed, I've taken an unexpected hiatus from updating my blog. My son was born on December 30th, 2018 and, let's say, my world quickly turned upside down. Parenthood has been a rewarding--and exhausting--journey so far, but updating the blog was a very low priority. I also have a few Latin novella …
A Year in F7 – Week 11 (Latin I)
MONDAY, October 15th, Day 45 Card Talk – Two Truths/Lie TOPIC: quid tu egisti hoc biduo? I prepared this PowerPoint presentation in order to give the students the support they needed to compose some basic sentences about themselves and their activities. I just used this to discuss the student's weekends and interests--we didn't play "Tria …
Comprehensible Classics 